Splogging In The Adult Industry - Your Thoughts?

[Lee]

Okay so a lot of us are aware that sponsors are offering adult webmasters RSS content feeds for usage on our adult blogs and sites but, at what point does the usage of such RSS feeds become spam?

Does anyone know if any of the SE's are currently (or planning) to penalize sites for utilizing RSS feeds to much?

I would figure, after a certain amount of time, even if the feeds update regularly, the amount of sites using the content is going to outweigh the usefulness of the feed content.

What are your thoughts on this, how can programs constantly offer RSS feeds for their affiliates to use and not start to become a burden to their affiliates by offering spam feeds that surfers will have seen before on other sites?

Regards,

Lee

[gmartin]

I think it might be more the responsiblity of the affiliate to use the tools provided judiciously. I haven't gotten around to using any sponsor rss feeds on my blogs yet, but if I do I'll likely only use a feed post once a day and it'll just be additional content surrounded by my original content posts. That strikes me as the best way to use them, as an additional content stream rather than the only content stream. Having seen what's on offer so far, I'm not in a hurry to use any of them though and if I do I'll probalby set them to go straight into unpublished drafts so I can tinker with the text. The real convenience is not having to go to the sponsors site to grab pics, upload to blog, create thumbs, resize images, etc.

Playing mix and match with the feeds would probably help keep a blog from being penalized. Mix enough feeds from different sources and it probably looks like original content to a search engine. That's basically what the big news aggregators do, they have dozens of feeds coming in. It's probably all about how they are blended together.

[IdolKnights]

Lee,

Here is the issue I see.

RSS syndication is set up by a lot of people; myself included, to capture every update on a site within the parameters set on the syndication.

I guess I could run a hands free blog and have all entries listed via rss but I would be, as you said, a cookie cutter blog that has nothing to offer over each and every other blog with the same syndications.

When I look at how rss feeds work I can see it has the ability to syndicate a section, a category or everything under the sun.

*But I hear this site is pulling 1.132 so I MUST promote it too!

What if…

With each new content release, as an affiliate, you run 5 or 10 various options of presentation with unique rss feed. Image arrays as well as supporting text.

Again it’s going to turn into bland content as now you can make 5 or 10 unique blogs pulling each syndication and over saturate the content that much faster.

But apply a keyword or content type selection option into the various feed types and you could come up with a combination that still looks unique. (I want this feed layout with the keywords: Muscle, Jock, and Daddy. I want all feeds from live cam calendar.) And someone else could choose a different content type and layout from the same affiliate.

This again goes back to over syndication of the same site, content and keywords with a little time but helps break it up some. That is if you run a hands free blog.

But I may be way off with my thinking.

[Lee]

Craig,

I agree with you in essence however, for that to happen, the original publisher of the feed is going to need to allow those affiliates using it to set parameters to call niche specific or keyword specific areas and again, that is going to cause the same problem, hundreds, if not thousands of affiliates all doing the same thing.

Granted, it is going to take longer for the feed content to become stale but, it will do eventually and at that time, the effectiveness of the feed gets cut dramatically.

Regards,

Lee

[IdolKnights]

No matter how it’s thought out, you end up with clutter already posted somewhere else.

Personal injection will always be a key.

[Dzinerbear]

The Google mantra has always been "original content." If a site has none, then they'll be passed over for the sites that do. If a site is made up exclusively or considerably of material written and published by other sites, I can't see that they'll garner much traffic from search engines, or at least Google.

A certain amount of re-publication would be okay, I suppose. But I'd be sure I was writing most of my own stuff.

Michael

[tigermom]

The Google mantra has always been "original content."

That's the mantra of self proclaimed SEO gurus, not of Google. Google doesn't chant too many mantras itself

I am trying the RSS route big time these days with lots of pure RSS blogs (not just gay, not nearly enough good feeds there). I still keep my "quality" blogs with unique posts (have about 20-30 of those), but I am throwing together a couple of hundreds of RSS splogs. Throwing a wider net in the water, let's see if it brings in more fish...

[Dzinerbear]

I still keep my "quality" blogs with unique posts (have about 20-30 of those), but I am throwing together a couple of hundreds of RSS splogs. Throwing a wider net in the water, let's see if it brings in more fish...

And see, this is the problem. This is why, in the end, blogs will become worthless, not just to search engines but to surfers. You can't possibly maintain a couple of hundred blogs, any of which would be worth anyone's time to read. Surfers have to sift through hundreds of blogs to find anything appealing and useful. Eventually they get tired of trying and they move on.

A lot of blogs these days remind me of the beginning of AVS when a webmaster would put up ONE picture of a naked guy and say "Buy this." Now a lot of blogs put up one picture with the entry, "This is Johnny. I think he's hot. Buy a so-and-son membership and see his cock." Of course, I guess that's why they're called blogs. When AVS became flooding with webmasters regurgitating the same content over and over, it started to kill AVS. To prop itself up, AVS's would launch multiple AVS products to suck the surfer back in with the lure of the newest and best.

Eventually blog traffic will become like TGP traffic -- lots of lookers and no buyers. And the sploggers will have moved onto something else, the next big thing. It's happening in the review site arena, too. Hundreds of review sites, many of which aren't really offering reviews.

I think this is the thing I hate about this business the most. Someone comes up with a good idea, it becomes successful. Then, the vultures swoop in, figure out how to do it with as little effort as possible, then they smatter the landscape with their crappy products, the product concept become tarnish, predicable, and unappealing to surfers, the product dies a long, slow and painful death.

And finally, about Google, you're wrong. This is right off their webmaster's page: "If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first." I know first-hand that original content works and it's what search engines are looking for because I pull in so much search engine traffic. Remember scrapper sites? They were like splogs. They had no original content, they'd just scrape mine and everyone else's, put up millions of pages and they soared to the top of the search engines and stole everyone's traffic. Eventually Google rejigged things to make them disappear and the same will happen with splogs.

One day splogs relying on RSS feeds for most of their content will disappear from the indexes. They'll be dropped to the bottom so the original content rich sites can rise to the top. And the vultures will move on to the next new thing because splogging won't be profitable.

Michael

[Xstr8guy]

Thank you Michael! That needed to be said. :bunny: